Need for JDBC

 Today, the most widely used interface to access database is ODBC. ODBC stands for Open Database Connectivity. It is a standard in relational database connectivity published by Microsoft (though originally developed jointly by Microsoft and Sybase). ODBC cannot be used directly with Java program because it uses a Programming Language C interface and it also makes use of Pointers which have been removed from Java. JDBC comes after the ODBC but JDBC is a Java API and contains Java interface for working with SQL